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Topic: Weather Gone Wild

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How is the weather in your neck of the woods?

Scorching hot here for the last few days! (I live in Florida) It's been around 100 degrees or so during the middle of the day, but drops off considerably by the time evening comes. I've been praying for rain, to cool things down. It rained here all last week, and that was very nice!

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In Arizona, right now it's 101, kinda on the cool side. This past winter we had an unusual severe frost that killed a lot of trees. I heard Buenos Aires got snow yesterday, first time in 90 years. I wonder if the chemtrail project is designed to ward off an impending ice age. Bring it on!

It's been uniformly HOT in North Carolina. Today we got a break with a huge (refreshing) thunder storm after weeks of no rain to speak of. Even the chemtrails which were excessive at the beginning of the year have tapered off recently. Perhaps NC Chemtrail Central has a new assignment exacerbating (er . . . combating) sky wars elsewhere.

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Living in Alberta... we had almost record highs in the last month. Today up to about 100 F (about right i think for 32 celcius?). Warm for this time o year up here, but at least it is nice and dry.. just humid before thunderstorms break through. Been seeing chemtrails on a fairly regular basis over the city too

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Millenium wrote:

How is the weather in your neck of the woods?

I'm in Charlottesville Virginia and there have been a lot of thunderstorms this year already, starting back in May. We've lived here since Sept. 2004 and I don't recall this many T storms in 2005 or 06, so I asked somebody else who's lived here for years and they said it was unusual. Not the norm. I'd say we've already had about a dozen T storms since May. And they come with torrential rainfall and strong winds, on par with what we had back down in South Florida, which of course is Caribbean climate.

Personally I love T-storms, the more lightening and drama and noise and torrential water the better it's cool, even my cat got used to them after Florida so I can leave the door open during one and she calmly sits on the floor, watching it all going on. But it seems odd to have already had so many.

This past winter was also definitely WAY warmer than the way things used to be in this area, from what I've gathered. I've heard from long time residents that this area used to get on average 12-14 inches of snow a year. Not anymore. We had BEES flying around in December. We had warm weather in the beginning of January. And then a false early spring where stuff started blooming several months early as a result. A small baby tree outside our patio sprouted leaves around February, which all died when the freezing temps later set in. Luckily they grew back again. We had one night, maybe two tops where the temp hit 0F, and I ran outside and jumped around up and down, all giddy, experiencing the 0 degrees F. I was like, enjoy it now! weeeeee! (boing! boing! boing! up and down!) In a few years this area won't be hitting 0 anymore in the winter!

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Just saw this article posted on CNN about a tornado that swept through Brooklyn, NYC with 135 mph estimated winds, and 3 inches of rain falling on Manhatten in less than an hour.. That's absolutely nuts, and is right in line with the crazy weather noted in the Mary Summer Rain "Phoenix Rising" prophesies thread.

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cnn wrote:

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Strong winds and heavy rainstorms tore through the Big Apple early Wednesday, killing one person and wreaking havoc on the region's transit system and causing delays at two major airports.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said a woman died after her car became stuck in high water under an overpass on Staten Island and it was hit by another car.

Five other people have been injured throughout the city, most as a result of falling trees and flying objects when a tornado swept through Brooklyn shortly before 7 a.m. ET, Bloomberg said.

The National Weather Service confirmed the twister winds were up to 135 mph.

The Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn lost as many as 40 percent of its trees, according to Commissioner Joe Bruno of the city Office of Emergency Management.

Many of them fell on vehicles and homes.

"I saw the tree coming down and I ran back inside," said one man who went outside when his car alarm went off. "It sounded like a freight train coming through." Video Watch the damage done by the New York storms »

"I never thought this would happen in Brooklyn. ... Kansas maybe, but not here."

One official said as many as 150 trees were reported down in the city.

Bloomberg said he had visited a Nissan dealership in Brooklyn that lost part of its roof. He saw several churches missing parts of their roofs or windows.

The NWS said the tornado first touched down about 6:30 a.m., damaged trees, then lifted, tearing off the roof of the Nissan dealership. It returned to the ground farther northeast, the weather service said, causing more tree damage.

It touched down a third time in another area, ripping the roofs off five homes and causing more tree damage. By that point, meteorologists said, its winds had died down to 100 mph.

A National Weather Service tornado warning was in effect until 7:15 a.m. ET after Doppler radar reported a strong signal in the area, which includes JFK Airport. The warning was issued at 6:20 a.m., the NWS said.

Flash flooding warnings were briefly issued in New York City and surrounding areas after a strong thunderstorm moved through the region around 7 a.m., dumping up to 3 inches of rain in less than an hour over Manhattan and western and central Long Island.

Bloomberg said some area beaches might have to be closed later due to the runoff from the storm mixing with sewage.

The extreme weather caused delays of up to one and a half hours at JFK -- which got 3.47 inches of rain -- and at LaGuardia International Airport -- which got 2.54 inches of rain and had some flooding on the roads in and around the facility.

No flooding has affected the runways, a Port Authority spokesman said.

The flooding disrupted service for commuter trains and the metro as well.

"Due to severe flooding throughout the subway system, there are extensive delays on all subway lines," said a statement from the Metro Transit Authority. "Customers are advised when at all possible to use bus service."

The Long Island Rail Road had delays of up to 30 minutes system-wide officials said.

PATH train service across northern New Jersey and the Newark Light Rail system was also disrupted.

PSEG electric company in New Jersey reported about 3,000 scattered power outages due to rain and wind, and Con-Ed reported 6,000 outages in New York City and Westchester due to the storms.

A heat advisory remains in effect for the New York City metro area, where the combination of high humidity from the morning's rainfall and afternoon temperatures in the 90s was expected to create heat indices around 100 degrees. See where heat can pose dangers »

As of 5:30 p.m. ET, the heat index at LaGuardia Airport was 101 degrees as the company that manages the power grid across much of the U.S. East Coast urged customers to cut back on their electricity consumption.

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!" - Anonymous-----"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."-----

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Marcus wrote:

But then of course the idea of an investigation is more than likely just distraction from the more obvious question of; "wtf is going on with the weather!?"

That's exactly what it is. By framing the situation as "we should have handled the disruption, we shouldn't have had downtime, so we're gonna find out what happened" there's an implication that this is normal weather and things should have remained at the status quo; takes the pressure off the real question.

It reminds me of a year or so ago when there was a record-breaking amount of precipitation in a single month in Seattle (the town got DOUBLE its usual amount of rain for the month, big flooding problems in the area etc). Near the end of the month, a weatherlady on the TV "news" one evening had the rainfall totals (current and average for the month, so the doubling is obvious to everyone) on the background of the screen, but then kept her usual cocktail-smile demeanor and said something like "and it looks like we've had a bit more rain than normal this month" as if it was some miscellaneous cheery data point in her list of cheery data points, and moved on. I was flabbergasted when I saw it; I was screaming things like "gee, YA THINK?!??"